I don't think there are laws regulating the discrimination against job status.
I'm finding that many companies are becoming more draconian with their hiring process. I've been reading how many companies are now doing credit checks on their candidates, which means that anyone who has had a financial crisis (no matter how ultimately manageable) risks having this held against them in future job prospects (read: a financial crisis is "evidence that you are irresponsible").
What sucks is that everyone is susceptible to financial crises and everyone is at risk of being out of a job at one point or another. The companies that do this are merely mitigating their risk. Hiring employees is a risky and costly venture. If they can afford the luxury of these screening processes, then they will use them. However, if the worker pool dries up, I'm sure they'll drop them in a heartbeat. They'll do whatever it takes to keep operations running optimally given the current environment.
It just so happens right now that the environment is a "hiring manager's market."
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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